QUESTION 5 - ANSWER

How would we compute the average age by province?

There are two ways to answer this question. We could use the summarize command with qualifiers to produce the answer, although this would take many lines of syntax and would take some time to work through. A quicker and more effective way to answer the question above is to use the sum option with the tabulate command.

tabulate province, sum(age)

            |  Summary of recoded age in years*
   province |        Mean   Std. Dev.       Freq.
------------+------------------------------------
       CAPE |   26.275591   17.514877         635
      NATAL |   27.556391   18.662611         266
   TRANSVAA |   25.667313   18.129815        1031
   ORANGE F |    23.78972   19.548608         214
   KWA ZULU |   22.772537   18.121881         954
   KANGWANE |   21.275591   17.296516         127
    QWA-QWA |   26.130435   22.752231          23
   GAZANKUL |   23.659794   20.673497          97
     LEBOWA |   22.148454   18.730434         485
   KWANDEBE |   27.235294   21.480771          51
   TRANSKEI |   23.049153   19.617894         590
   BOPHUTHA |   22.802005   17.235682         399
      VENDA |        25.4   19.198818          75
     CISKEI |   26.326241   19.882331         141
------------+------------------------------------
      Total |   24.240763   18.527311        5088

We obtain the table above, which provides us with the mean age for each of the South African provinces.

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